The Hospital opened in 1992 to replace the Yaumatei Eye Centre as a secondary and tertiary eye referral centre.Academic Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science of the Chinese University of Hong Kong is housed in the Hospital and it integrates with HKEH's clinical service. It provides undergraduate training for the medical students of the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Ophthalmology. Hong Kong Eye Hospital provides regular training programmes in Ophthalmology for Family Medicine trainees, medical students of the two universities, student nurses, optometry and Orthoptist students, as well as private practitioners.